Change Healthcare helps healthcare providers, health insurers, health services providers, benefit plan administrators and employer-sponsored benefit plans exchange and manage data. (Credit: WhataWin/Adobe Stock)
UnitedHealth now says the ransomware attack on its Change Healthcare subsidiary may have affected the data of about 190 million people. The estimate has increased from about 100 million people in October.
TechCrunch broke the news of the increase in the impact estimate last week.
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Allison Bell
Allison Bell, a senior reporter at ThinkAdvisor and BenefitsPRO, previously was an associate editor at National Underwriter Life & Health. She has a bachelor's degree in economics from Washington University in St. Louis and a master's degree in journalism from the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University. She can be reached through X at @Think_Allison.
